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Security · 2h ago

29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug Exposes Passwords

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from ProPakistani ·

A security flaw in the Squid web proxy, undetected for 29 years, could leak passwords. Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI identified the bug, which affects caching behavior. The vulnerability has been patched in the latest Squid release.

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This highlights AI's growing role in legacy code audits, but also underscores how long critical bugs can persist in widely used infrastructure.
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